Miracle cures and magic potions

[Wim Libaers]

Originally Posted by Skybird

POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE

Always to be carried with you when doing expeditions and travels! It can help to desinfect water, desinfect wounds, can help to fight fungal infection of your skin (feet!), makes wonderful huge red markings in the snow with just some very few crystals of it, a few crystal already colours litres and litres of water red like blood (well, violet...), it helps you to make fire by mixing it with glycerine or glucose and then add friction, it is an antidot against some types of poisening including phosphorus poisening, it helps to fight parasites (in your hair for example), and even smallest quantities already are sufficient to be carried in you survival kit. We used it repeatedly to treat water if we were not saure of the quality. Doesn't taste well, but - on all travels I did, I never suffered from any kind of health problems deriving from bad water.

Of course, be careful when using it for the treatment of drinking water. This requires only a very small amount. Concentrated solutions are corrosive and may cause lethal internal burns. (the same is true for other disinfectants like bleach and iodine)

[ASWnut101]

Urine

Yep, the yellow stuff that is 'dispensed' from your body.

USES: Can help stop a pink-eye infection; can have salt harvested from it for use in disinfecting and storing; 100% sterile unless you have a urinary tract infection or an STD; helps stop the effects of athletes foot; puts out fires in a very smelly way; drinkable to replace some excess nutrients and salts that your body might have missed during digestion; cools down hot mortar tubes.

(All above IS true, but kinda nasty.)

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Originally Posted by ASWnut101

Urine

Yep, the yellow stuff that is 'dispensed' from your body.

USES: Can help stop a pink-eye infection; can have salt harvested from it for use in disinfecting and storing; 100% sterile unless you have a urinary tract infection or an STD; helps stop the effects of athletes foot; puts out fires in a very smelly way; drinkable to replace some excess nutrients and salts that your body might have missed during digestion.

(All above IS true, but kinda nasty.)

You forgot "cools down red hot mortar tubes" a-la We Were Soldiers

[ASWnut101]

Edited.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Wim Libaers

Of course, be careful when using it for the treatment of drinking water. This requires only a very small amount. Concentrated solutions are corrosive and may cause lethal internal burns. (the same is true for other disinfectants like bleach and iodine)

True. The dosis should be MINIMAL, and then the water be left for 2-4 hours at least. The colouring should be minimal only. We prepared water one day ahead.